 Above is a confocal image of new neurons in the dentate gyrus of the macaque monkey. |
The announcement arrived in the wake of reports from Princeton University some six months before that neurogenesis occurs in ...
Research Turns Another 'Fact' into Myth
Above is a confocal image of new neurons in the dentate gyrus of the macaque monkey. Collaborators at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden, under the direction of Salk professor Fred H. Gage, recently reported newly formed neurons in the hippocampi of adult humans.1,2 The announcement that neurogenesis-- through which new neurons live and die in the brain well into the later years of adulthood--has been disco
Written byA. J. S. Rayl
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